Backend Developer - Remote

Headquartered in Rotterdam since 2007, the company now sells in 40 countries and supports customers in 11 languages. We run one of the larger SaaS platforms for commercial insurance carriers, processing millions of policy transactions a year.

Role overview

Our team is growing and we are hiring a Backend Developer - Remote. The Payments team owns services that process several million requests a day. We need another engineer who is comfortable owning them in production. Remote within the Netherlands. The team meets in Rotterdam once a quarter, travel covered. We keep meetings to a minimum and work mostly async. We use Slack, Notion and Google Meet. Cameras on for team calls.

Day to day

• Design and build REST and gRPC APIs in Go, Java or Python
• Handle on-call for services the team owns and lead incident follow-ups
• Containerize services with Docker and deploy them to Kubernetes or ECS
• Model data and write migrations for PostgreSQL, MySQL or DynamoDB
• Instrument services with metrics, structured logs and OpenTelemetry traces

Minimum qualifications

• 2+ years of backend development experience in a production environment
• Strong SQL and relational data modelling skills
• Working knowledge of message queues or streaming platforms
• Proficiency in at least one of Go, Java, Kotlin, Python, C# or Node.js
• Understanding of concurrency, transactions, idempotency and retries
• Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP or Azure services
• Familiarity with Docker and CI/CD pipelines

Nice to have

• Kubernetes, including Helm charts
• Prior work breaking up a monolith

Compensation: €6,600 to €8,500 monthly

What you get

• Pension scheme
• 25 annual leave days
• Travel allowance
• Training budget
• 30% ruling for eligible candidates
• Bike plan
• 8% holiday allowance

Applications are reviewed weekly.

Start: Flexible.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Waal Digital.